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2012 UCT Maths Competition breaks records: 8 312 entries from 153 schools
A record entry of 8 312 participants from a record number of 153 Western Cape schools will converge on the University of Cape Town Upper Campus on the evening of Monday, 16 April. After registration, they will move into 63 different venues across the campus to write the contest papers.
12 Apr 2012
Dinosaur bones debunk migratory myth - UCT researcher
Duck-billed dinosaurs were once dubbed the "happy wanderers" of the North Pole, but a new study suggests they were not migratory at all and preferred to stay closer to home. The evidence is in their bones, according to a team of dinosaur palaeontologists from the University of Cape Town and the US.
10 Apr 2012
NRF awards P-ratings to 3 young researchers at UCT
Three researchers at the University of Cape Town have been awarded P-ratings by the National Research Foundation (NRF). P-ratings honour young scholars who demonstrate the potential to become future leaders in their respective fields. Only 4 P-ratings were awarded for the country as a whole in this cycle.
03 Apr 2012
Prestigious award for UCT's champion of drug discovery
University of Cape Town professor Kelly Chibale was presented the 2011 Alan Pifer Research Award on 15 March 2012, in recognition of his establishment of the H3-D Drug Discovery and Development Centre - the first centre of its kind in Africa, which runs under Professor Chibale's direction.
20 Mar 2012
UCT to honour pioneers in arts, economics, science, law and medicine
This year, the University of Cape Town will award honorary degrees to a selection of experts chosen not only for what each has contributed to his or her respective areas of expertise, but to society as a whole. This year's honorands are: Allan Gray; Marlene Dumas; Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones; Nicholas Haysom; David Sanders; and Jonathan Ellis.
29 Feb 2012
UCT helps rural people fight law that could promote abuse of power by tribal leaders
The Law, Race and Gender Unit (LRG) at the University of Cape Town is working with the Legal Resources Centre and local community-based organisations to ensure that people living in rural villages will have an opportunity to speak out against the proposed passage of the controversial Traditional Courts Bill, which is considered unconstitutional by legal experts. View video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPaHb_AxSg0&list=PLAF5F3C9233117EAB&index=1&feature=plpp_video
08 Feb 2012
New master's programme to build mental health care capacity in Africa
The Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health (CPMH), a joint initiative between the University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University (SU), has launched Africa's first postgraduate training programme in public mental health, to help build capacity in mental health care in Africa.
02 Feb 2012
UCT mechanical engineers invent device to grow bone and tissue in upper jaw
Two University of Cape Town engineers and a surgeon have adapted simple mechanical engineering principles to develop groundbreaking maxillo-facial surgery. The team uses a plate-guided distractor (basically a hose clamp made to work as a crawler on a track) to grow new bone in the upper jaw of patients who had large surgical defects following on ablation of tumour or trauma. View video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HSImGyk2fU&feature=channel_video_title
27 Jan 2012
UCT medical professor joins global fellowship on occupational health
University of Cape Town Professor Mohamed Jeebhay has been elected as a fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini. The Collegium is an international scientific society, founded in 1982, that examines critical issues in occupational and environmental medicine with a view towards action to prevent disease and promote health.
26 Jan 2012
Book by UCT academic explores universities' role in wider society
Universities are taking on the function of economic development in addition to their traditional double mission of teaching and basic research, according to a new book by Professor David Cooper, a sociologist at the University of Cape Town. The University in Development, launched in November 2011 by HSRC Press, analyses the complex relationship between universities and the rapidly changing world they operate in.
24 Jan 2012
New applications mark UCT as centre of 'nanovation'
The NanoSciences Innovation Centre at the University of Cape Town and the centre's spin-out company, PST Sensors, have recently introduced joint developments in thermal imaging and sensor imaging technology that can increase efficiency and safety in a number of industries, including food and pharmaceutical packaging, retail, transport and logistics, aerospace and automotive engineering, healthcare, marketing and advertising.
24 Jan 2012